Special relativity 1st edition by Anthony Philip French 1351988575 9781351988575

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ISBN-10 :  1351988575 

ISBN-13 :  9781351988575

Author:  Anthony Philip French 

The book opens with a description of the smooth transition from Newtonian to Einsteinian behaviour from electrons as their energy is progressively increased, and this leads directly to the relativistic expressions for mass, momentum and energy of a particle.

Special relativity 1st table of contents:

1 Departures from newtonian dynamics
Newton
“The ultimate speed”
Photons
The energy-momentum relation for photons
Matter and radiation: the inertia of energy
Energy, momentum, and mass
Is the new dynamics correct?
Motion under a constant force
“Einstein’s box unhinged”
Some comments
PROBLEMS
2 Perplexities in the propagation of light
The nature of light
The luminiferous ether
Stellar aberration
A modified aberration experiment
Fizeau’s measurement of the drag coefficient
Prelude to the Michelson-Morley experiment
The Michelson-Morley experiment
Concluding remarks
PROBLEMS
3 Einstein and the Lorentz-Einstein transformations
Preamble: the contraction hypothesis
Einstein reasserts relativity
Relativity according to Galileo and Newton
The transformation of Newton’s law
Einstein and the universality of c
The second postulate and observational evidence
The relativity of simultaneity
The Lorentz-Einstein transformations
More about the Lorentz transformations
Minkowski diagrams: Space-time
A space-time invariant
PROBLEMS
4 Relativity and the measurement of lengths and time intervals
Observers
Point events and their transformations
Time measurements
The Lorentz contraction
Time dilation
Observation of time dilation with cosmic-ray mesons
Another interpretation of the time-dilation experiment
More about time and length measurements
A Michelson-Morley experiment with lasers
Relativity is truly relative
Space-time intervals and causality
PROBLEMS
5 Relativistic kinematics
Transformation of velocities
Radiation from a rapidly moving source
Light in a moving medium: the drag coefficient
Transverse motions; stellar aberration
The Doppler effect
More about Doppler effects
Doppler effect and time dilation
A new search for the ether
Looking at moving clocks and other objects
Accelerated motions
The twins
PROBLEMS
6 Relativistic dynamics—collisions and conservation laws
Two views of an elastic collision
Two views of an inelastic collision
Further remarks on the conservation laws
Absorption and emission of photons
The Mossbauer effect
The photon rocket
Creation of particles
Scattering
The Doppler effect revisited
PROBLEMS
7 More about relativistic dynamics
An energy-momentum invariant and its use
Lorentz transformations for energy and momentum
Four-vectors
Force in relativistic mechanics
Magnetic analysis of relativistic particles
General force transformations; action and reaction
PROBLEMS
8 Relativity and electricity
Coulomb’s law
The magnetic force on a moving charge
Introducing the relativistic approach
The transformation of Coulomb’s law
The force on a stationary test charge
The force on a moving test charge
The field of a line distribution of charge
The magnetic field and relativity
The magnetic force on a moving charge due to a current-bearing wire
More about magnetic forces and Lorentz contractions
The force between current-bearing wires
Units and systems of electric and magnetic measurement

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